Table.
Sexual behaviour of 5709 long distance lorry drivers in India. Values in body of table are numbers (percentages); values in headings are numbers of respondents to question
| Age group | Sexually promiscuous* (n=4949) | No of sexual partners during past 12 months
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Regular condom use in past 12 months during commercial sex (n=563) | AIDS knowledge† (n=3997) | Sexual practice‡
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Alcohol misuse§ (n=2714) | Sexually transmitted disease¶ (n=1748) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ⩽30 | 31-40 | 41-50 | 51-60 | Vaginal sex only (n=4572) | Vaginal sex plus:
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| Anal sex (n=162) | Oral sex (n=215) | |||||||||||
| <21 years: | ||||||||||||
| Married (n=61) | 40 (66) | 19 | 10 | 5 | 6 | 31 (78) | 39 (64) | 36 (90) | 2 (5) | 2 (5) | 28 (70) | |
| Unmarried (n=166) | 111 (67) | 54 | 15 | 22 | 20 | 4 (4) | 124 (75) | 107 (96) | 2 (2) | 2 (2) | 60 (54) | |
| Total (n=227) | 151 (66) | 73 | 25 | 27 | 26 | 35 (23) | 163 (72) | 76 (34) | 88 (58) | |||
| 21-30 years: | ||||||||||||
| Married (n=1087) | 978 (90) | 614 | 163 | 93 | 81 | 102 (10) | 701 (64) | 967 (98) | 5 (1) | 6 (1) | 360 (37) | |
| Unmarried (n=679) | 425 (63) | 94 | 66 | 143 | 122 | 16 (4) | 581 (86) | 413 (97) | 7 (2) | 5 (1) | 260 (61) | |
| Total (n=1766) | 1403 (79) | 735 | 229 | 236 | 203 | 118 (8) | 1282 (73) | 656 (37) | 620 (44) | |||
| 31-40 years: | ||||||||||||
| Married (n=2408) | 2207 (92) | 1417 | 590 | 189 | 11 | 216 (10) | 1803 (75) | 2060 (94) | 61 (3) | 86 (4) | 704 (32) | |
| Unmarried (n=190) | 134 (71) | 59 | 23 | 35 | 17 | 71 (53) | 81 (43) | 104 (78) | 12 (9) | 18 (13) | 52 (39) | |
| Total (n=2598) | 2341 (90) | 1476 | 613 | 224 | 28 | 287 (12) | 1884 (72) | 1320 (51) | 756 (32) | |||
| <40 years: | ||||||||||||
| Married (n=1060) | 1012 (95)** | 528 | 284 | 140 | 60 | 101 (10) | 641 (60)** | 866 (86) | 69 (7) | 77 (8) | 280 (28)** | |
| Unmarried (n=58) | 42 (72)** | 18 | 9 | 15 | 0 | 22 (52) | 27 (47)** | 19 (45) | 4 (10) | 19 (45) | 4 (10)** | |
| Total (n=1118) | 1054 (94)** | 546 | 293 | 155 | 60 | 123 (11) | 668 (60)** | 662 (59)** | 284 (27)** | |||
*
Frequent and indiscriminate change of sexual partners, irrespective of marital status. †Correct answers to questions about the transmission and severity of AIDS.
‡
Usual practices during previous 12 months by men who had extramarital sex. §Drink daily early in the morning and get tremors if they don’t drink.
¶
Genital ulcer, genital discharge, or both, during last 12 months, in men who had extramarital sex. **P<0.001, χ2 test, compared with men aged <21 years.